BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM by Kate Atkinson

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patricia aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby.

Ruby tells the story of the Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail and beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty and memorable events in Ruby's own life.

Soft cover, fair condition. The book shows minor signs of wear.